Palantir is a software company that specializes in big data analytics. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Palantirs software is used by public institutions, private enterprises, and non-profit organizations to facilitate machine-assisted and human-driven data analysis. The company has three main products: Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, and Palantir Apollo.
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Palantir Gotham: This product integrates, manages, secures, and analyzes enterprise data. It is used by counter-terrorism analysts in the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and the United States Department of Defense (DOD) .
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Palantir Foundry: This product allows users to create various tables, applications, reports, and presentations. It is used by commercial clients like Merck, Airbus, and Fiat Chrysler.
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Palantir Apollo: This product manages and deploys both Gotham and Foundry from a software standpoint.
Palantirs software is used in a variety of industries, including automotive, cyber, financial compliance, insurance analytics, law enforcement, case management, defense, insider threat, and legal intelligence, among others. The companys business model has three phases: Acquire, Expand, and Scale. Palantirs software has been used to track and contain COVID-19 in several countries, and the company also developed Tiberius, a software for vaccine allocation used in the United States. Palantirs software is also used by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to detect and investigate fraud and abuse in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.